nut

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See also:Nut,NUT,nuť,nút,nût,nứt,Nüt,and-nut

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Etymology 1

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A bowl of mixed nuts (hard-shelled seeds).
Assorted nuts (fasteners with internal threads).
The nut of a violin.

FromMiddle Englishnute,note,fromOld Englishhnutu,fromProto-West Germanic*hnut,fromProto-Germanic*hnuts(“nut”),from a root*knu-possibly shared withProto-Celtic*knūsandLatinnux(“nut”).Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin.[1][2]

See alsoWest Frisiannút,Dutchnoot,GermanNuss,Danishnød,Swedishnöt,Norwegiannøtt.

(Thisetymologyis missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.Particularly: “Sex senses?” )

Noun

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nut(pluralnuts)

  2. (food,broadly)Any of various hard-shelledseedsor hard, dryfruitsfrom various families ofplants.
    There are many sorts ofnuts:peanuts,cashews, pistachios, Brazilnutsand more.
    2. (botany,strictly)Such a fruit that isindehiscent.
  4. (hardware)A piece ofhardware,typicallymetaland typicallyhexagonalorsquarein shape, with a hole through it having internalscrew threads,intended to bescrewedonto a threadedboltor other threadedshaft.
    Hypernyms:fastener,hardware
    Hyponyms:acorn nut,barrel nut,square nut,wing nut,wingnut,T-nut
    • 1998,Brian Hingley,Furniture Repair & Refinishing,page95:
      As the bolt tightens into thenut,it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt andnutby setting thenutinto the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.
  5. (slang)Thehead.[from 19th c.]
    Synonyms:coconut,bonce,noodle
    • 1891,James Main Dixon,Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases‎[2],page226:
      Off one'snut—crazy; mad. S.Nutis a slang term for the head.
    • 1960,P. G. Wodehouse,Jeeves in the Offing,chapter V:
      Let the Cream get firmly in hernutthe idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.
  6. (slang)Acrazyperson.
    Synonyms:loony,nutbag,nutcase,nutter;see alsoThesaurus:mad person
    He was driving his car like anut.
    • 1975,Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman,One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(motion picture), spoken by McMurphy (Jack Nicholson):
      Which one of younutshas got any guts?
  7. (colloquial)Anextremeenthusiast.
    a fashionnut— a gunnut— a sailingnut
  8. (UK,Ireland,slang,dated)An extravagantlyfashionableyoung man.[1910s–1920s]
    • 1914,"Saki",‘The Dreamer’,Beasts and Superbeasts,Penguin 2000(Complete Short Stories),p. 323:
      ‘You are not going to be what they call aNut,are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that aNutwould be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring [...].
  9. (anatomy)Senses related to male genitalia.
    2. (archaic)Theglans(structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
      • 1665,Dr. Chamberlain's Midwifes Practice‎[3],page54:
        [...] TheTentigo,head orNutof the Clitoris, covered by theNymphes,as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...]
      • 1763,A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences:
        GLANS, in anatomy, the anterior extremity of the penis, called by other different names, as the head of the penis, thenutof the penis, and the balanus of the penis.
      • 1864,Edward Cox,Cox's Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest:
        In persons troubled with tight foreskins, the matter from the urethra becomes collected between the foreskin and thenutof the penis.
      • 1965,Peter Fryer,The Birth Controllers,page23:
        In this work the great Italian anatomist described a linen sheath which he claimed to have invented. Made to fit the glans, ornutof the penis, it was worn for protection against venereal disease.
      • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:nut.
    4. (vulgar,slang,chiefly plural)Atesticle.
      Synonyms:ball,(taboo slang)bollock,nads
      I kicked him in thenuts.
    6. (vulgar,slang,uncountable)Semen,ejaculate,cum.
      • 2005July, “Breakdown”, inSpin,page104:
        As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to "makenutcome out your nose. "
    7. (vulgar,slang,countable)Orgasm,ejaculation;especiallyreleaseofsemen;cumshot
      He just needs a goodnutto make himself feel better.
      • 2020,Dontavious Robinson,Gangster Mission Part One,Page Publishing, Inc,→ISBN:
        […]feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as hernutlubricated him[…]
      • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:nut.
  10. (US,slang)Monthly expense to keep aventurerunning.
  11. (US,slang)The amount ofmoneynecessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
    • 1971,Hunter S. Thompson,Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,Harper Perennial, published2005,page11:
      My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make thenut,”he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
  12. (US,slang)Astashof money owned by an extremely richinvestor,sufficient tosustaina high level ofconsumptionif all other money is lost.
  13. (music,lutherie)On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at thepegheadend of thefingerboardthat holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
  14. (typographyslang)En,a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
  15. (climbing)Ashapedpiece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in therockfaceand used toprotecta climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
    • 2005,Tony Lourens,Guide to climbing,page88:
      When placingnuts,always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which thenutcan be wedged.
  16. (poker,attributive)The best possible hand of a certain type. Comparenuts(“the best possible hand available”).
    nut straight,nut flush,nut full house
  17. (firearms)Thetumblerof agunlock.[3]
  18. (nautical)Aprojectionon each side of theshankof ananchor,to secure thestockin place.
  19. (archaic)A small roundedcakeorcookie.
    dough-nut
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  • →Japanese:ナット(natto)
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Verb

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nut(third-person singular simple presentnuts,present participlenutting,simple past and past participlenuttedor(nonstandard)nut)

  1. (mostly in the form "nutting")Togathernuts.
    • 1575,John Stephen Farmer, editor,Five anonymous plays, Early English Dramatists‎[4],volume Fourth Series, London: William How for Richard Ihones, page171:
      I will no morea-nuttinggo; That journey caused all this woe.
    • 1847,Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress:
      […]the huge country fellow[…]leapt forth from the underwood, exclaiming "That is not allowed, gentlemen! That is not allowed! Nobody is allowed tonuthere; I must take your names to Sir John! "
    • 1978,Edwin Way Teale,A walk through the year‎[5],Dodd, Mead,→ISBN,page238:
      We are goinga-nutting.
  2. (UK,transitive,slang)Tohitdeliberately with thehead;toheadbutt.
    Synonyms:butt,Glasgow kiss,Liverpool kiss,loaf
    • 1999,Nik Cohn,Yes we have no: adventures in the other England:
      One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word,nuttedme square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...
  4. (slang,mildlyvulgar)Toorgasm;toejaculate.
    Synonyms:blow a nut,bust a nut;see alsoThesaurus:ejaculate
    • 1996,“Bust a Nut”, performed byUncle LukefeaturingThe Notorious B.I.G.:
      I got a bitch that suck my dick 'til Inut
    • 2006,Noire[pseudonym],Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale,New York, N.Y.:One World,Ballantine Books,→ISBN,page152:
      Isis rode my mug like she was on a ten-inch dick, and as soon as shenuttedI tossed her ass off a me and flipped her on her back, then fucked the shit outta her cause it was payback time.
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:nut.
  5. (slang)To hit in the testicles.
  6. (slang)To defeat thoroughly.

Etymology 2

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Noun

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nut(pluralnuts)

  1. Alternative form ofnuth(“Indian nose ring”)

Etymology 3

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Variant ofnot.

Interjection

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nut

  1. (Scotland,colloquial)No.
    • 1995,Alan Warner,Morvern Callar,Vintage, published2015,page26:
      Did you like them boys? I goes.
      Nut.She shook her hair.
      Neither?
      Nut.Right townies.

References

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  1. ^Guus Kroonen (2013) “*hnut-”, inAlexander Lubotsky,editor,Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic(Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;11)‎[1],Leiden, Boston:Brill,→ISBN,page238
  2. ^De Vaan, Michiel(2008) “nux”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages(Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page420
  3. ^Edward H[enry] Knight(1877) “Nut”, inKnight’s American Mechanical Dictionary.[…],volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.:Hurd and Houghton[…],→OCLC.

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nut(uncountable)

  1. use,benefit

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From the adjectiveMiddle Dutchnutte(“useful”),or fromMiddle Dutchnut(“yield”),fromOld Dutch*nut,fromProto-Germanic*nutją,*nutjō(“profit, yield, utility”),fromProto-Indo-European*newd-(“to seize; grasp; use”).

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Noun

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nutn(uncountable)

  1. use,point,utility,sense
    Synonym:zin
  2. benefit
    Synonym:voordeel

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Adjective

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nut(comparativenutter,superlativenutst)

  1. (obsolete)useful
    Synonym:nuttig

Declension

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Declension ofnut
uninflected nut
inflected nutte
comparative nutter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial nut nutter hetnutst
hetnutste
indefinite m./f.sing. nutte nuttere nutste
n.sing. nut nutter nutste
plural nutte nuttere nutste
definite nutte nuttere nutste
partitive nuts nutters —

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Middle English

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Adverb

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nut

  1. Alternative form ofnot

Norwegian Bokmål

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nut,the top to the left

Etymology

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FromOld Norsehnútr.

Noun

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nutm(definite singularnuten,indefinite pluralnuter,definite pluralnutene)

  1. a tall, roundedmountaintop

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsehnútr.

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nutm(definite singularnuten,indefinite pluralnutar,definite pluralnutane)

  1. a tall, roundedmountaintop

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Old Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsehnot,fromProto-Germanic*hnuts.

Noun

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nutf

  1. nut

Declension

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Declension ofnut(consonant stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative nut nutin nyter nytrina(r),-rena(r)
accusative nut nutina,-ena nyter nytrina(r),-rena(r)
dative nut nutinni,-inne nutum,-om nutumin,-omen
genitive nuta(r) inna(r) nuta nutanna

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Polish

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Noun

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nutf

  1. genitivepluralofnuta

Scots

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Pronunciation

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Interjection

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nut

  1. (Southern Scots)no;used to showdisagreementornegation.

Unua

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Noun

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nut

  1. Alternative form ofnaut

Further reading

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  • Elizabeth Pearce,A Grammar of Unua(2015)
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